I stumbled upon this book and I can't put it down. Maybe it's because my sister had her 20 week scan last week and I am an over enthusiastic Auntie in waiting, but it could just be for the curious photography, revealing pretty and not so pretty international signage design.

I see something different every time I flick through it.

An innovative, modern day names book. No lists just engaging and thought provoking photographs, which have a story behind them that I play over in my mind. The author describes the book as a lovingly devised and artistically designed collection of people-less portraits. Which is ironic considering the subject matter is people and their names!

My sister and brother in law have always had 2 names. One for a boy and one for a girl. I love the fact that they happily indulge everyone in debating alternatives when I am pretty certain they are fixed on their favourites. I bought them a copy too as a baby shower present (I want to keep the other - it's too interesting to give away).

Could it be a sign? Only one of the names features in the book! They opted to cover their eyes (literally) during the scan when the sonographer said "if you don't want to know then look away at this part"! Have a guess at which one it is from all the photos of names that feature in our family?!

How did you choose your baby's name?

What are your little, or not so little anymore, ones called? Have you ever seen a sign with their name on and stopped for a photo?!

I have been playing around with some photography apps now I have joined the iPhone gang. I love using filters on my photos but sometimes it seems a pain to have to click on the app, choose your photo from the camera roll and then play about. By the time I have found the right filter the moment has passed!

This is why I like the Lomo Lens Lite app. It's free to download and enables you to take your photo with a Lomography effect, in real time, just point and click.

I snapped these photos at the park on Sunday and they show just how wintry it was, how the colours are deeply saturated, with the Lomo Lens giving them an atmosphere almost moody, with the vignette around the edge, that frames the shots, shown to best effect in the ones of the bare branches. Yet when you add a person the colours seem to pop! My favourite is the leaf confetti that was casually sprinkled all over the pathways!

Download it here.

What are your favourite photo apps?

We've got a mini Diana F+ Lomography toy camera and will share the photos just as soon as they get back from being developed. Back to the days of 35mm film! I can't wait to see if there are any gems.